SOME ABORIGINAL SITES ON RED RIVER. 489 
Near Dooley Ferry, Hempstead County, Ark. 
Crenshaw Place, Miller County, Ark. 
Daniels Place, Hempstead County, Ark. 
Jones Place, Hempstead County, Ark. 
Near Jones Place, Hempstead County, Ark. 
Moore Place, Miller County, Ark. 
Summerhill Place, Bowie County, Texas. 
Moores Place, Bowie County, Texas. 
Sanders Place, Bowie County, Texas. 
MOUND ON THE KELLER PLACE, POINTE CouPÉE PARISH, LOUISIANA. 
The Keller Place, on Old river (see map), is the property of Mr. George 
Keller, of New Orleans. 
About one-half mile in a southeasterly direction from Keller Place Landing, 
in a field long under cultivation, is a mound 9 feet 8 inches in height and 109 feet 
by 86 feet in basal diameters, the summit-plateau being 43 feet by 36 feet. The 
mound probably had been oblong at one time, and fairly symmetrical, but trampling 
of cattle, which we were informed sometimes herded there, and wash of rain, no 
doubt have contributed to give the mound its present somewhat irregular appearance. 
There was evidence on the summit-plateau of some digging previous to our 
coming, which, however, seemed to have been desultory in character. 
Trial-holes in the summit-plateau almost at once came upon burials. Two 
and one-half days, with eight men to dig, were devoted to a partial investigation 
of the mound, which proved more arduous than is usually the case with similar 
mounds, owing to the heat and drought which had made so hard the clayey 
material of which the mound was composed that the pick and grubbing-hoe were 
constantly called into requisition. | 
As it seemed probable that this mound had been а domiciliary one, and that 
burials were superficial and that graves had been диг only from the summit-plateau 
or from it and its immediate neighborhood, diggers were placed around the slope 
10 feet down from the plateau, and much of that part of the slope included was 
dug through at a depth of from 2 to 3 feet. Also somewhat more than one-third 
of the plateau was dug and picked away to a depth greater than 3 feet, and deeper 
when graves required it. 
Burials were numerous, and nearly all encountered in the course of the digging 
we have described seemingly had been put down from the surface, though the pits 
could not be traced to the present level of the plateau, owing to the presence of a 
superficial layer of earth about one foot in thickness, which probably had been 
trampled by cattle above and mingled by roots below until all outlines of pits had 
disappeared from it. 
Up to the under surface of this layer, however, most of the grave-pits easily 
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